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Should I ship an Action RTS Battle Royale?
Battle Royale + Action RTS
Only 5 developers shipped an Action RTS Battle Royale in the last 2 years, too few for firm odds: the middle one made est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.; the top game by est. revenue, Just Move:Clean City Messy Battle, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 12 more are announced, ×6.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 10 / 10 build.
Only 2 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $240 against a market of $1.3k. 12 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $60 (exactly $60) |
|---|---|
| Median | $239 (exactly $239) |
| Top 25% | $748 (exactly $748) |
| Top 5% | $5.3k (exactly $5,277) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 5 |
| Released games | 25 |
| Announced | 12 |
| Effort | 10 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| Typical price | $4.99 |
momentum: how a niche's revenue percentiles and developer count moved between two equal, adjacent periods, divided by the market's own move. See method., 12 months: revenue too few recent games to read momentum, supply 35% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 16%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is low: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Battle Royale
- effort 10 / 10 · low · 100-player servers and constant live ops
- Action RTS
- effort 7 / 10 · low · effort 7 sits in the low band
What it takes
- Effort
- 10 / 10 · studio only
- Systems
- Battle Royale, Action RTS
- Price point
- $4.99 typical
Why players buy here
Fewer than 10 games in the last 2 years; sentiment and price figures use the all window.
The top 10 games average 73% positive over 1,380 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $60. All of the 5 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 12 games are announced against 2 developers who shipped in the last year, ×6.0 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Battle Royale with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Immersive SimFair
- + MysteryLong shot
- + LootPoor odds
- + SportsPoor odds
- + Hero ShooterPoor odds
- + PuzzlePoor odds
- + Psychological HorrorPoor odds
- + Dungeon CrawlerPoor odds
- + Co-opPoor odds
- + SandboxPoor odds
- + 4 Player LocalPoor odds
- + RoguelitePoor odds
Comparable games
Ancient Wars: Sparta Definitive Edition 2022 · EA · $272k 
WARCANA 2024 · $226k 
Multiwinia 2008 · $147k 
CUBE ROYALE 2023 · EA · $14k 
Just Move:Clean City Messy Battle 2025 · $5.3k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Ancient Wars: Sparta Definitive Edition | · EA older | $19.99 | 453 74% | 14k | $272k (exactly $271,664) | JOTASOFT STUDIOS |
| | WARCANA | older | $16.99 | 443 62% | 13k | $226k (exactly $225,797) | 1000 Orks |
| | Multiwinia | older | $11.99 | 409 82% | 12k | $147k (exactly $147,117) | Introversion Software |
| | CUBE ROYALE | · EA older | $9.99 | 47 93% | 1.4k | $14k (exactly $14,086) | Creature Factory |
| | Just Move:Clean City Messy Battle | $15.99 | 11 45% | 330 | $5.3k (exactly $5,277) | daminggede | |
 | War Job | $4.99 | 5 80% | 150 | $748 (exactly $748) | Stupid games | |
 | 1v1 Deathmatch | older | $4.99 | 5 80% | 150 | $748 (exactly $748) | Matthew Lalande |
 | Snake Effect | older | $9.99 | 2 50% | 60 | $599 (exactly $599) | oooyqx |
 | No Kings Tiny Defenders | $3.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $239 (exactly $239) | Doru.best | |
 | Just fighting | older | $0.99 | 3 66% | 90 | $89 (exactly $89) | Wangziyue |
 | Riverside Gals / 大乱闘リバーサイドギャルズ | $1.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $60 (exactly $60) | 黒の御者団 | |
 | Hunted Hunter | $4.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Athmos Studio |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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